RENE-LOUIS LAFFORGUE
Originally from the Spanish Basque country, singer-songwriter René-Louis
Lafforgue was born in San Sebastian on March 13, 1928. His family arrived in
France during the Spanish Civil War and settled in the Paris region, in Cachan,
before moving to Pontoise, where the teenager studied and worked at various odd
jobs. Mobilized during the Second World War, he took part in the Resistance and
lost his brother Sylvain, who was taken prisoner and shot. Attracted to the
theater after the Liberation, René-Louis Lafforgue joined Charles Dullin's
troupe in 1948 and toured Europe with mime Ma...
